A letter from August 4th, 2014

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hello. How are you? Right now I am at SFO, or San Francisco International Airport. I'm not sure where the O from SFO comes from. In SFO time, it's 11:19 AM, but in China time, it's 2:19 AM, so I am really tired. I mean, REALLY TIRED. I think I will go have a cup of Peet's coffee in a bit or so. I find it kinda interesting that China doesn't have time zones, but at least people don't have a problem with feeling jetlagged when they travel to different parts of China. I am very jetlagged. As you can probably clearly tell. Blah blah blah BLAH BLAH ehm hem --> this reflects my mental state Um, anyway. Our flight layover is approx 6 hours, which I thought was kinda long, so I wanted to take BART into the city (or at least to somewhere more interesting). BART is really expensive, though-- $15 round trip for San Bruno, the closest stop. That's kind of ridiculous. In Shanghai, taking the subway cost about 2-4 yuan per trip, I think, and $15 USD would last you a long time on the subways. Light Rail in Denver only costs about $4 round trip, I think, so $15 is seriously overpriced. Oh also our flight to San Francisco had wifi! Not free though-- you had to pay about $17 for wifi access during the whole flight. I feel like the demand for wifi access on an airplane flight is pretty elastic, though, (considering that people are already used to not having wifi on airplane flights) so I think the price is a bit high. I'd predict that it (the price of wifi access) will drop in the next few years, though then again, as the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, the demand for internet usage on planes might increase, which would lead to increased prices. Also, there's inflation to think about. Anyway that is all my brain is capable of (semi-)coherently producing. I think I will go eat lunch. Bye bye bye bye byeeeeeee.

Epilogue

1 day later

Dear PastMe,

It's really strange to peek into the mind of myself from 8 years ago.

Speaking of SFO, it might interest you to know that I (you?)...

Lvei a ledalc !raea siasgahh'n tallyuac si ag(oulhht o tehs'er rtsyyem onw aby rroaipt roelng vgp ywh suhc is idrbinwleeg fso hte si on in an hwy ni lls)ti rtteyp.
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A ri,csep er wne fiwi all on lnogre wol uohhgt eprics noatneilritna fwii tlhsgfi on si thta on ,ignth ntae'r gfhtsli eenv. Be eerf on ehaecpr etdns to sielirna own iiwf jebetlu) omes dan elk(i itoedmsc ifwi foerf shl,tgfi. Ersthe' gflihst on ot itb a i a tiem on so ycplhea ti ryulxu is of usgse reicp sronae iwfi. Stuj oyu cuosriu in aces were.
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A tbi in salo aer oesm anht sda htta ttah nad ni wsay rpnsoe b,e ot a odog ryev oyu some o'vuey eusd eobcme are rfneedfit. Ove'yu cehdiaev rdupo i'm eyrtpt ,lysmot you trogwh the lla replaons fo ofr. Elsiitcdia ldwuo uoy tno noeaymr dourp i enve fi oyu're ,oto eb so epoh.
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Mboeec vrye porens hntki voyu'e rgosnt i a. Itgnry eht ot of nto lawyas elif sha ginhst is yuo tub obaut 'oreyu atht eebn yaes setb eno so htnik i uyo,.
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Tigkan eel,rtt ntmrpoaeic ofr hwi)le i sfar-ceel oyu rallec you dna (i a hte the that tahnk oson of ealnr slsnoe opeh. Oot lte niaev ot llo,eceg leepop rae oyu tloxepi enojy tyr shrfe uyo ont a unrdaedgr nwhe adn mnya. Norpes oyu nttmroiap yoru hitw teme [] etmsi lwil aosl ehrichs uyo urtdg)eaa tafre (na.
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,ywa in 2120 obcitin you yb rapk ehav reobef yan shac eht.

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